Stuffed Peppers

Currently cooking out of Make It Fast, Cook It Slow by Stephanie O’Dea

We had mixed reviews on this dish. I really liked it, but Bryan didn’t. He thought it was bland and kinda boring. I added a lot of salt and pepper to mine and thought it was quite tasty.

You take ground turkey and mix it with some cooked rice, onion, fire-roasted tomatoes, worcestershire sauce, ketchup and pepper and then stuff 6 bell peppers with the mixture. Those peppers then slow cook for three to four hours on high or six to eight hours on low. One thing I thought was odd was the recipe didn’t call for any salt. And it desperately needs salt. And more pepper. My mixture only stuffed five peppers, but then I could only fit five peppers in my crockpot, so I guess it was all good.

Note: In reading other people’s reviews of this dish, many of them said that they used uncooked rice and it came out just fine. I wish I had read these review first, because my peppers released a lot of liquid and made everything very watery. I suspect that using uncooked rice will help soak up this excess liquid.

Here’s the link to the recipe on O’Dea’s blog: http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2008/05/crockpot-stuffed-pepper-recipe.html